Mary Swanzy HRHA (1882-1978) 'In the Window' Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20'') Signed Exhibited: The Dawson Gallery, original exhibition label verso. Mary Swanzy was born in Dublin in 1882....

Mary Swanzy HRHA (1882-1978) 'In the Window' Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20'') Signed Exhibited: The Dawson Gallery, original exhibition label verso. Mary Swanzy was born in Dublin in 1882. She was educated in Paris and Freiburg, Germany before returning to Alexandra College in Dublin. For her art education she attended the well known art classes of Miss Manning, the Dublin School of Art and the RHA School. After that she studied in Paris at the studios of Delecluse, La Gandara, Grande Chaumiere and Colarossi. Her talent was spotted as early as 1906 by George Moore, admiring the quality of her work and by Nathaniel Hone who remarked that one of her portraits was ''the best picture painted in Dublin for thirty years''. She travelled extensively throughout the world from the South Seas to Czechoslovakia, absorbing new ideas and influences as she went. She was made HRHA in 1949 and there was a large retrospective of her work at the Hugh Lane Gallery in 1968. Here she has taken an unusual angle on her very popular cubist landscape by positioning the landscape out the window drawing the viewers eye up to the top right hand side of the painting. A French friend once remarked that Swanzy should be referred to as a ''Rondiste'' painter rather that a ''Cubiste''. She was represented in Ireland by the Dawson Gallery where this lot and the lotfollowing were purchased by the current owner

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